#chainsaw man anime spoilers

[radically-bitter-coffee]

I don't mind spoilers about CSM (I've already been spoiled and I don't care about spoilers that much anyway, I think good stories can't be ruined by them) so you can say your thoughts if you want!

Alrighty then!

The thing that would irk most feminists watching CSM is probably this one character in particular: Himeno.

Himeno's character is, when boiled down, very "manic pixie dream girl". She introduces and/or encourages other characters to do "bad" things like smoking cigarettes, drinking, and hooking up whilst drunk. She has her reasons for being the way she is, and I would not say her character doesn't make sense or that these traits and actions come out of nowhere, but you can clearly tell after her death that she was written specifically for a male characters development.

Now, CSM is Not above killing off characters for character development in backstories, male Or female. In fact Himeno's backstory involves lots of men dying.

Himeno's death is definitely written to factor into a male character's development, and even slightly for the protagonist's, but I do think it was a suitable end for her.

Onto the whole hooking up whilst drunk thing though... that was gross, I'll admit. Episode seven is when she encourages Denji (who I think is 16) to drink at a gathering with their coworkers. She gets drunk, makes out with him (it's a gross scene, emeto is involved), later takes him back to her apartment when he passes out (probably due to drinking too much as he's still dizzy/drunk when he wakes up) where they proceed to sleep on the same bed, with her in her underwear and a tanktop. After she asks if he wants to have sex with her but he refuses, he goes back to sleep but on the floor instead. She sleeps on the bed.

In the same scene, right before asking to have sex, she calls another woman a bitch because she finds the protagonist and that other male character I mentioned earlier stupid for crushing on her when she won't love them back. It's a bit reminiscent of reddit nice guys.

This all makes sense with her personality and backstory and all but I do think they were overall... not needed at all. They're so gross that I can't even say they're particularly fan service. They aren't drawn in the typical "huge tits huge ass very saturated blush" way either, it really is just not a nice scene. One could argue they are for her character, and they are, yeah. I don't think it truly justified it though.

Now besides Himeno, I should also not fail to mention that Makima, the character everyone talks of as a femdom, is also not the best. Clearly written for the manga authors fetish, Makima is also definitely grooming the protagonist, even though she doesn't exactly have romantic or sexual intentions with him. While Makima's lack of attraction does change things in terms of whether this would be called pedophilia or not, she does encourage his attraction to her, and promises things like letting him feel her up in exchange for doing things such as hunting a specific creature, and says that she'll let him do more for bigger accomplishments. Her strength as a character comes from being very manipulative, mentally strong, and having Some Sort of Magic.

Again, I have all this to say about Himeno but overall I did enjoy Chainsaw Man a lot. The animation is pretty, the characters both male and female are likable, the world building accomidates the added fictional creatures nicely. The protagonists want to get with a woman is not in the typical shounen perv way, as he wants an actual genuine connection (which is why he refuses Himeno's advances) but finds sex to be a physical representation of that as an emotionally halted teen.

[pinkrose787]

[batfamscreaming]

Like, I know there's "technically" "better" arcs in chainsaw man but my favorite and the one I have been looking forward to is definitely the endless eight(h floor). It's a little bottle episode, it's concise and tricky, and immediately the people who were like "what if we can't trust them with our backs??" can't be trusted with anyone else's backs. It's a lot of personality clashes pushing everything along and you cant be JUST clever or relentless to escape, you have to be both. The devils surpass everyone's expectations, specifically Humeno who wasn't like, mean to them, but who is pragmatic and completely blindsided by Power and Denji showing just the tiniest bit of loyalty to Aki, and how despite all appearances Aki has been convinced that between him and Denji, Denji has to live at all costs. Denji can't owe anyone anything because of his traumatic childhood being unable to hold onto even his own body because of debt.

Denji spills his own blood immediately to make it even.

[falinscloaca]

i’ve been thinking about the episode in retrospect but i was going through an anime site discussion thingumagig and this person puts it pretty well. the action was just... kinda not good. the models they’re using aren’t *great*, the stiffness and rather dull lighting on them is even worse, and the choreography on the initial aki vs kantana bout was beat out by a fucking fan-animation (so many cuts... so close to the camera.... the perspective on the after-he-gets-showdown-instachopped shot is so claustrophobic compared with the two panel spread from the manga.....).

i did really like the snake devil’s implementation, it didn’t capture the manga’s two-or-three-panel fucking IMPACT or the exact blocking of those panels as much as my brain craved but it still makes a good show of how jarring the thing was while also not looking like crap. it disappearing instantly is a change from the manga (it uses the same disappearing fog as Fox does iirc) but i like it a lot, its so matter-of-fact and does well to illustrate its just fucking *unnatural* strength 

[urbanumviolentium]

I wonder how many people will bounce off Chainsaw Man because of the um... iconic “Chu~” scene.

[sevensimian]

I feel pity the anime onlies who didnt know about the cursed kiss scene

[justphilia]

U r telling me Angel Devil could regen his arms but didn't want to becos he had no will to live wht if I had no will to live huh have you thought about that

[k1ttycrush]

the duality of girl

[cinna-rae]

I just wanted everyone to know i asked denji’s englis va ryan colt what universe he would put denji into besides csm, and he said pokemon so he could be surrounded by “little dudes”

[nicostiel]

Chainsaw Man Cinema

[writterings]

chainsaw man understands trauma and abuse very well in my opinion and i think nayuta as a character is just such a good way to express its messaging on these topics. like denji is literally raising the reincarnated version of the woman who sexually groomed him, manipulated him, literally fabricated his entire life, and killed his family of aki and power -- and when he asks how he can prevent her from turning out just like makima, the answer is "give her lots of hugs," essentially meaning "love her." pochita literally said that the reason makima was the way that she was because she had no one to love and no one loved her -- and that doesn't excuse what she did in any way, but nayuta didn't do any of that. denji breaks the cycle of violence through loving nayuta, despite and because of how he himself was neglected and abused all his life. while that's genuinely a very simple message that a lot of narratives with abuse themes actually do have, it just makes perfect sense for chainsaw man's narrative since the whole reason the story is even happening is because denji showed love and kindness to pochita, who had never known love or kindness before.

[guiiay]

gentlemen prefer makima ! 💋

[thejessc0de]

[falinscloaca]

also god DAMN it its old news but himeno hot

[saeraas]

DENJI! SHE'S TRYING TO TURN YOU INTO A WEAPON, DENJI! IT'S ANOTHER GIRL TRYING TO KILL YOU! DENJI! I KNOW YOU WANT A GENUINE CONNECTION WITH OTHERS BUT IT'S GOING TO HURT REAL BAD, DENJI! DENJI!

[sailor-sunshine]

so i was screwing around and thought of an akiangel utena au, mainly bcs akio reminds me of makima aki being utena was a second thought. pls i need comments on this.